Sky > wrote in
:

> Gloria P wrote:
>>
>> Bob Ezrin wrote:
>> > Sometime around Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:03:50 -0500, "Ed Pawlowski"
>> > > claimed:
>> >
>> >> http://www.packagingdigest.com/artic...927931642.html
>> >>
>> >> ANSA) - Chiavari, February 17 - A Ligurian wine maker is preparing
>> >> to drop 6,200 bottles of spumante into the sea off the coast of
>> >> Portofino where they will mature on the ocean floor in the world's
>> >> first experiment of its kind. Piero Lugano of the Cantina Bisson
>> >> winery said the bottles will spend 18 months on the sea bed at a
>> >> depth of 70 metres, a near-constant temperature of 15 degrees
>> >> centigrade, and with an almost total absence of light.
>>
>> >
>> > Time to dust off my old scuba gear!
>>
>> To 70 meters? I doubt it.
>>
>> gloria p
>
> Heheh, I'm no diver, but I had to wonder at 70 meters too, and with
> regular scuba gear? Somehow, I rather doubt that?


It's a possible. It couldn't be 'a run in the middle of the night to get a
few hundred bottles' thing though. It'd require a lot of planning..... and
cylinders.

A Hookah setup would be better :-)


> But, it will be
> interesting to learn what results the experiments provide, that's for
> sure.
>


It's already been proven to work.

http://www.abc.se/~m10354/uwa/champ-en.htm

4400 bottles of 1907 Heidesieck Champagne sunk in 1916 and 'stored' at a
depth of 64m for 81 years.

We had a taste of it at a special event held here in Brisbane back in
2000.




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